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| Apr 28, 2023 at 9:51 | history | edited | Benoit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2023 at 18:03 | comment | added | Themis | The animation is visualization of the Liouville equation and says nothing more than the Liouville equation itself: entropy is the area of the shaded region, and this area stays constant because the flow of microstates is incompressible. Hence no change in entropy. We get this stretching whether we start with the equilibrium distribution or not. Stretching means that neighboring microstates diverge at long times. Still, each microstate moves on its own trajectory and never "mixes" with another microstate. | |
| Apr 27, 2023 at 17:04 | history | edited | Benoit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2023 at 16:27 | history | answered | Benoit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |